If I purchased a Time Capsule, is it possible to link my old airport express to the Time Capsule to extend the wireless signal in my house?

If so, how would I go about it?

Cheers.

Should be. You'll probably need to enable WDS in the Airport Admin Utility so that the Airport Express is operating in bridge mode.

Also note, that in this mode, you can't use 802.11n, as the Time Capsule/AEBS hasn't got dual network cards in it, so it's one frequency or the other.

Okay, great. Thanks guys.

Theoretically possible, but in my experience practically impossible with my gigabit extreme and express.

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Des...rks0190271.pdf

so because of this the Time Capsule cannot run in n mode, while the bridged AEx runs at g mode; and so this means the Time Capsule will ONLY run in g mode because of the bridge to the AEx, and therefore would be as slow as a sack of shit when doing Time Mchine from say an capable computer..??

Oh dear, scratch the Capsule for my place. I like my AEx too much..

The AirPort Express is an 802.11g device, in order for the AirPort Extreme/Time Capsule to talk to the AirPort Express, it will need to use the 802.11g method. It can't use both at the same time (unless it had two cards in it). Because it's running in 802.11g mode to talk to the AirPort Express, your Mac has to talk to it in 802.11g, as the AirPort Extreme/Time Capsule has 802.11n disabled.

If you let the Macs talk to Time Capsule in 802.11n mode, the AirPort Express can't join in, so will be on it's own network. On your Mac, you'd need to connect to the AirPort Express network in order to control it, then back to the Time Capsule network for the Mac to backup to it. Kinda defeats the purpose. Apple should shove a 3.5mm output on the time capsule, or upgrade the AirPort Express to 802.11n

This is how I think it works anyways, I haven't used an AirPort Extreme in conjunction with an 802.11g network (just a sole 802.11n network).

thanks fella, I understand perfectly. cheers!